Dear readers, I am humbled that literally thousands of you read "Surf God of Malibu" and I am very sorry that it has taken me so long to record part 2 of this reminiscence. It follows immediately on the first tale, and you really must them in order--JamesonX
I awoke three times that night. The first time I was strangely conscious that I was all alone in my little beach shack, and I thought about the way Jacob had left so quickly after our wild hour —the ecstasy gone and him looking rather sheepish and clearly feeling a little foolish. I thought a little guiltily about how he had got all suddenly modest and how he had gone to dress behind the couch. He acted almost apologetic, as if it had all been his doing, even though I was the one who took it so far.
Beyond the embarrassment, he was no doubt feeling a little afraid of me. I mean, I had acted like an animal. Clearly he'd wanted it, but did that give me the right to take things to the limit? All that pushing him up against the wall of the shower? Good Lord...It probably wasn't right to take advantage of a moment like that, a relationship like that...and hey, maybe there was some responsibility in being a teacher, even a goddam surf teacher. If you were a teacher of any kind, you probably weren't supposed to fuck your students in the ass, even if they were grown men and wanted it. Even if there had been an inestimable joy in it. Even if it had been a sweet and necessary moment. Maybe it was against professional ethics or something.
I'd also just pulled him out of the surf like a wet puppy...and as I tossed and turned, I thought how maybe you probably weren't supposed to, well, let someone who's life you just saved suck your cock.
The whole thing had felt wicked good, that much was sure. As far as the gay thing went, I wasn't much concerned. I was not, after all, actually
gay
. And so what if I had a good time fucking a man in the ass? I fucked a man! Laying there in the dark, I had to smile. I remembered again the complete abandon I felt as I held his tight little hips and pumped his ass. Damn! That was good. Then I remembered how I'd kissed him on the forehead and on the lips, even. Why did that part happen? It just seemed like the right thing to do, our being so close in that moment and all. It wasn't like I was in love with the little guy. "
Am
I gay?" I thought. And then I shrugged, and tried saying "whatever." And I fell back asleep.
The second time I woke, I was in a strange panic. It was about 1 a.m. The wind had picked up off the ocean, and the rain had returned, and a couple surfboards I'd laid against the wall outside were creaking against one another. There was a bang as one fell, and I called out "Jacob? Is that you?" It was silly. How could that be Jacob? Now I was worried about him driving back home to his bitchy little wife and no-doubt huge pristine house in fucking Bel Air. Would he succumb to the absurd irony of it all? Have some dark moment? Do something stupid?
"Honey, how was your day?" I imagined him saying to the bitchy wife. "Oh, glad to hear you had a nice lunch with your yoga instructor. That's funny, I had a special event with my surf instructor today. After he saved my life out on a wild ocean in the fog, I knelt in the rain and sucked his dick, and then I let him take me into the shower and fuck me in the ass. Don't worry, he didn't charge me any extra."
After that conversation, maybe Jacob would shoot himself. I actually obsessed with that for a while: You know the thoughts that run through your head in the middle of the night. I thought about calling him, just to make sure he was okay, but it was 1 a.m., and he was with the wife.
And then I felt stupid for worrying about him at all. I mean, wasn't I the
Surf God?
Wasn't "crazy" what I
did every day?
Even if I usually did it with women? "Better he should get out of here fast," I said to myself. "Better he should just go, after all that." But I have to admit it took me a little longer to fall asleep. For a while, I thought about hunting down some wine or something, but it seemed like too much trouble, and then I was out.
The third time I awoke, it was probably going on four, and I was immediately conscious of two things. First, the wind had died and the moon had come out. Second, I was not alone in my bed anymore. A warm body was close by under the covers, and there was the distinct sound of another person breathing. Strange. Was this a dream? Or was it still Tuesday night, and was that Cindy breathing next to me? Had the
whole intervening day
been a dream?
I reached out a tentative hand, and found an arm. It didn't seem like Cindy's arm at all.
Then I sat up and pulled back the covers a little to see in the moonlight. The hair on the pillow was black, and I was pretty sure Cindy was a blond. Still, it was a familiar form curled up, facing away from me. It also seemed to be nude.
"Mmmm," said a voice which was clearly not Cindy's voice, either.
"Jacob?"
"Shhh. Just sleep. Please," came the reply.
"No shit?"
"Shhhh."
"Well goddam," I said, and got back under the covers, and turned the other way, and felt strangely relaxed, and fell right back to sleep.
I didn't wake up until about 10 in the morning, and I could see through the window that all the clouds had blown past and it was bright outside. I could hear the surf, so I knew that the universe had not completely done a backflip. Still, there was another sound in the shack that did not belong. Someone was humming. And there was an unfamiliar smell—someone was cooking.
"Shitfire," I said, but there was no reply.
I looked around the one room of my little shack and there was a man, almost certainly Jacob, with his back turned to me, and he was cooking something on the stove, probably eggs. He was wearing a white dress shirt and apparently nothing else. The shirt was long, and expensive, but the tail of it barely covered his ass.
"Good Lord," I said. "You really are here."
"I decided to make breakfast," was all he said.
"So...Jacob. Aren't you supposed to be at work or something? The law firm? Suing people or something?"
"I told them I'd be working from home today." He turned then and looked at me with a kind of neutral and expectant look, and there was a long moment. You could see he was wondering if I would throw him out or maybe hit him. When I didn't do anything, he turned back to the eggs. The whole next speech was made with his back to me, probably because it was so intense. I stayed in the bed and listened.
"This is the most dangerous thing I've ever done in my life, but I'm doing it."
"Okay," I said. "Is there coffee?"